Automatic processing of agricultural data

Abstract

Methods for agricultural data management include automatically monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on a computing device, notifying at least one component of a software system executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data, processing the agricultural data by the at least one component and storing the agricultural data in a data repository, and automatically distributing the agricultural data from the data repository in a predetermined format.

That which is claimed: 
     
       1. A method comprising:
 operating a trigger to automatically monitor for a plurality of events associated with receipt of agricultural data, wherein the trigger is running on a background thread and monitoring the computer for certain events, wherein a user specifies the type of trigger corresponding to an event for multiple triggers, and wherein the agricultural data comprises a plurality of data formats; 
 automatically detecting, by the trigger, receipt of at least one occurrence of one or more of the plurality of events monitored, wherein the trigger, upon the identification of the occurrence of an event, sends a message to a kernel that new agricultural data has arrived; and 
 automatically converting the agricultural data associated with the at least one detected occurrence to a common predetermined format. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1  wherein the agricultural data comprises geoposition data. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 2  wherein the agricultural data comprises environmental data. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 2  wherein the agricultural data comprises as-applied data. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1  wherein at least one of the events comprises insertion of a memory card, a wireless data transfer through a port, synchronization with a mobile device, or receipt of an email. 
     
     
       6. An article for use on a computing device, comprising:
 a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a software application configured to: 
 operate a trigger to automatically monitor for events associated with receipt of agricultural data, wherein the trigger is running on a background thread and monitoring the computer for certain events, wherein a user specifies the type of trigger corresponding to an event for multiple triggers, and wherein the agricultural data comprises a plurality of data formats; 
 automatically detect, by the trigger, receipt of at least one occurrence of the events monitored, and wherein the trigger, upon the identification of the occurrence of an event, sends a message to a kernel that new agricultural data has arrived; and 
 automatically convert the agricultural data associated with the at least one detected occurrence to a common predetermined format.